Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch
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What AI went rogue this time?
"Hey {goober} promote the release to production"
"Producing Promotional Version for Release"
"....what?"
edit: rouge is a color.
"Hey {goober} promote the release to production"
"Producing Promotional Version for Release"
"....what?"
edit: rouge is a color.
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Wait, the entire game is pre-loaded? I thought only sections of the games were pre-loaded, like textures and such. That seems so risky to let people download the entire game, even if encrypted, because of stuff like this.
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In a sensible world they would. Except they got greedy and they're charging people extra for "premium 4 days early access", so they can't release it early without undermining their own selling point.
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Unfortunately, part of the $120 edition is being able to play it four days earlier than everyone else, so they'd have to figure out a way to soothe those
For my part, I'm looking forward to picking it up for ~$20 in a couple years, assuming society still exists.
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Wow I haven't heard the term "cracker" in a month of Sundays! Well, as used in this context. These days most reporting just uses "hacker" for everything.
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Forza Horizon 4 was one of my few driving game purchase regrets. After that I had no interest in any others.
It isn't how arcady it is, I like the Flat Out games. It is how unpredictable the handling is with a wheel, understandable since it is a console controller game.
It isn't how arcady it is, I like the Flat Out games. It is how unpredictable the handling is with a wheel, understandable since it is a console controller game.
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In most cases the entire game is pre-loaded, but no it's not really that risky in the cases where people actually do upload encrypted assets as they are supposed to. It's not like cracking modern encryption is a simple matter, especially when you only got a week to do so.
As far as I know it's never happened that somebody actually decrypts the files early, the only incidents are cases like this where somebody uploads decrypted files by accident.
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it probably still included DRM so yes really cracked. even if it was Steam-DRM, which is trivial to bypass.
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oh and here I was maybe having just a tiny speck of sympathy for the big corp, but now fuck em.
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The copy Microsoft uploaded was still DRM protected, it just wasn't encrypted. So crackers still had to crack the game, but that part was relatively trivial.
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So I assume even though the files were unencrypted, Steam didn't allow you to play the game through Steam still? That's a bit ironic.
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Artem S. Tashkinov
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I'm not a fan of the headline.
Cracked games allow you to play them however and wherever you like with no performance loss.
Original games fuck you over in multiple ways (read: Denuvo and other DRMs).
Cracked games allow you to play them however and wherever you like with no performance loss.
Original games fuck you over in multiple ways (read: Denuvo and other DRMs).
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Artem S. Tashkinov
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The only type of games that I'm OK with being DRM'ed, and even using a kernel anti-cheat, is online games.
Online games without these protections turn into evil madness.
Online games without these protections turn into evil madness.
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As someone who bought that version, I don't care. Give those people an extra free car token thing or something and tell them to get over it. That was a preorder bonus of that version. The actual value of that version is getting the expansions.
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Kernel modules for a fucking video game is never justified.
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FSTargetDrone
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I started with FH3. Bought an XBox One just to play it. Went though all the other Horizon games and enjoyed them all to one degree or another.
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Fun ... in very old days, hacker did not exist. Cracker did. Talking about eighties, early nineties of you can guess what century.
Tried myself, cracking a copy protection, effectively learning 68000 assembly with it (yes, Atari ST). There always has to be a switch, where one party is sent in, and the other out. There were also (later,) little scandals outside cp, when MS did stuff to stop debugging in early MS vs PC-Dos, starting windows 3(.11? may be earlier). Entertaining, but very time intensive, so I quit and did more real programming, even got me a job. Have no clue what the tricks are these days, but I'm sure they are awesome, but not simply for sale..
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You know what really blows? It’s that sh¡t like this leads to more leniency for DRMs to dig deeper into the hole making it more and more difficult for legit buyers to enjoy their games we’ve properly paid for.
i don’t particularly believe Denuvo’s claim of 20% reduction in revenue because many people who pirate either wouldn’t have bought the game in the first place or will buy the game at a reduced price at some point in the future. The one’s putting out YT videos and making noise on social media are only doing it for clout.
i don’t particularly believe Denuvo’s claim of 20% reduction in revenue because many people who pirate either wouldn’t have bought the game in the first place or will buy the game at a reduced price at some point in the future. The one’s putting out YT videos and making noise on social media are only doing it for clout.
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Seriously? Has actual consistency? If so, I might give it a go.
I should clarify that I am on a PC, not a console.
FH4 was just frustrating more than enjoyable, though it did have elements where it could have been great.
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An AI with red lipstick would be ... someone's dream.Boy, your face must be rogue!
(sorry)
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I could have sworn I'd heard the term "hacker" before the 90's, so I had to look up it's etymology, and apparently it was used earliest in 1975, and gained wider usage in the mid-80's.
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I quite liked FH4 (UK, right?), but skipped FH5 because the location (Mexico) didn't appeal to me. FH6 (Japan) even less so. (But I understand that Japan was the most requested location as per fans.)
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I played through 5 on PC twice. I can't remember anything from 4 other than I was disappointed. I don't remember why, but 4 didn't do it for me or my buddy I played with.
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